Modern Wisdom

#213 - James Ball - Who Owns The Internet & How It Owns Us

24 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

James Ball is a writer, journalist & Pulitzer Prize winner. The internet is more than the website you browse... it's real wires under the Atlantic, hu...

#212 - Ashley Mears - Why Do People Go To Nightclubs?

20 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ashley Mears is a writer, sociologist and former fashion model. What happens if a sociologist decides to do immersive ethnographic research and become...

#211 - Chris Daw QC - Why We Should Close All Prisons & Legalise Drugs

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Daw is a Queens Council Barrister and an author. Does the current UK justice system work? Is it rehabilitating offenders? Does it even deter the...

#210 - Nina Jankowicz - Russian Election Meddling & Fake News

15 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nina Jankowicz is a writer and an analyst for Central and Eastern Europe. Expect to learn whether Russia are meddling in our elections, why Moscow car...

#209 - Catch Up 106

13 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef join me again to discuss our experience as humans over the last few months. No agenda, just finding out what's been going on in life. I'...

#208 - Jamie Alderton - Life Beyond Being Shredded

10 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jamie Alderton is a coach, fitness model and author. Jamie has been to the peak of fitness modelling, multiple magazine front covers, stepping on stag...

#207 - David Birtwhistle - What It Feels Like To Become Famous

08 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

David Birtwhistle is a PT and star of Netflix's Too Hot To Handle. The entire world is obsessed with blue ticks and follower counts, fame "by any mean...

#206 - Kezia Noble - A Woman's Guide To Attracting Women

06 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kezia Noble is a dating & attraction coach for men. Men are struggling to attract women, divorces are on the rise and relationships are more transient...

#205 - James Smith - How To Design A Life You Love

03 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

James Smith is a PT and not a life coach. Following your default desires and social norms is a surefire route to misery, yet we're given very little g...

#204 - Ashley 'Dotty' Charles - Why Everyone Is Outraged

01 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ashley 'Dotty' Charles is a rapper and BBC Radio 1Xtra presenter. 2020 is the year of outrage. Loud, brash, unsubtle conversations where whoever can b...

#203 - Matt Maruca - How To Use Light To Optimise Your Health & Happiness

30 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Maruca is the CEO of Ra Optics and creator of The Light Diet. This episode goes DEEP. Expect to learn how crucial light is to optimising your hea...

#202 - The Secret GP - What Really Goes On Inside Your Doctor's Surgery

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This guest's identity is being kept anonymous. He is a GP working for the NHS in the UK. Trips to the doctor are never fun, but how fun are they for y...

#201 - Andrew Scott - Society Has Everything Wrong About Ageing

25 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Scott is an economist and an author. Society has never been so old and yet never had so long still to live. More women had children over the a...

#200 - Episode 200 Q&A

23 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef join me for a special edition Q&A episode where we answer all your queries. These questions really ran the full spectrum from insightful...

#199 - Taylor Pearson - Discover Your Life’s Core Values & Operating Principles

20 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Taylor Pearson is an investor and writer. Your life is highly controlled by your values and principles, even if you haven't written them down, or even...

#198 - Tim Harkness - An Expert's Guide To Mastering Difficult Conversations

18 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Harkness is a psychologist and an author. Our ability to communicate is crucial for happiness and social cohesion, yet it seems that the art of h...

#197 - Petr Ludwig - How To Overcome Procrastination

16 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Petr Ludwig is a speaker, author and CEO of Procrastination.com. Procrastination is a speedbump in many a would-be productive person's life. Thankfull...

#196 - Amanda Kuda - Navigating The Dating Market In 2020

13 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Amanda Kuda is a life & mindset coach. Finding a partner that you're happy with is challenging. Add on layers of Tinder, Instagram, drunken dates & re...

#195 - Stefan Molyneux - Why YouTube Deleted My 1m Subscriber Channel

11 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Stefan Molyneux is a philosopher & (ex)YouTuber. Stefan is the creator of one of the longest running channels on YouTube with hundreds of millions of ...

#194 - Gail Golden - Ending The Struggle For Work-Life Balance

09 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Gail Golden is a management psychologist and an author. A balanced life is a happy life, and yet many people are overworked, underslept and have littl...

#193 - Ollie Marchon - Every Day Is Mindset Day

06 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ollie Marchon is a coach and business owner. I wanted to find out the principles Ollie uses to negotiate his life as a dad, husband, athlete, coach, b...

#192 - Professor Adam Hart - When Human Evolution Collides With The Modern World

04 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Hart is a scientist, author & presenter. Our species has been around for far longer than the modern world. This is leading to some imbalances bet...

#191 - Alcohol, Friend Or Foe?

02 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode was originally recorded on Ben's show Ben Coomber Radio. I enjoyed this discussion about alcohol and drinking habits so much, I figured I...

#190 - Christopher Berry-Dee - Death Row's Worst Killers In Their Own Words

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher Berry-Dee is a criminologist and a writer. Christopher has spent a career interviewing some of history’s most notorious killers includin...

#189 - Kyle Eschenroeder - How To Work Out What You Want To Want From Life

27 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kyle Eschenroeder is a marketer and a writer. You do not want to live a life that you regret at the end of it. But working out what you WANT to want i...

#188 - David Allen - The Art Of Stress-Free Productivity

25 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

David Allen is a productivity consultant and an author. Today I speak to the grandfather of the modern productivity movement. David is the creator of ...

#187 - Life Hacks 201

22 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me as we begin the 2nd Season of Life Hacks. Our favourite tools, apps, websites, strategies & resources fo...

#186 - Elena Seranova - Overcoming Low Self-Esteem In Business & Life

20 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Elena Seranova is a business coach, entrepreneur & PhD student. Many of us could do achieve far more if only we had the confidence to go after what we...

#185 - Dr Benjamin Hardy - The Truth About Your Personality

18 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Benjamin Hardy is an organisational psychologist and an author. Do you believe that your personality is permanent? Innate & inbuilt? Dr Hardy disag...

#184 - Ethan Suplee - What It's Like To Lose 300lbs & Adele's Transformation

15 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ethan Suplee is an actor & a podcaster. Ethan's fitness journey has been a rollercoaster - from 200lbs at 10 years old to 550lbs in his 20's and now 2...

#183 - William Leith - Why Some People Become Ridiculously Rich

13 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

William Leith is a journalist & an author. Acquiring an incredible fortune is the goal of many, but what is the true cost of being stupendously rich? ...

#182 - Dr Jack Lewis - The Neuroscience Of The 7 Deadly Sins

11 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Jack Lewis is a Neuroscientist, television presenter and an author. Why do we do the things we know we shouldn't? The 7 deadly sins have defined fo...

#181 - Rutger Bregman - Humankind: Are We Good Or Evil?

08 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rutger Bregman is a historian & an author. It's a common-held view of humanity that humans are adversarial. Shaven chimps competing with each other fo...

#180 - Prince Ghuman & Matt Johnson - How Marketing Reshapes Our Brains

06 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Johnson PhD is a Neuroscientist and Prince Ghuman is a Neuro-Marketer. Combining the insights of Neuroscience & Consumer Psychology can help us t...

#179 - Daniel Schmachtenberger - Reality, Meaning & Self-Development

04 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Schmachtenberger works in preventing global catastrophic risk. As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about how to improve our entire civ...

#178 - George Mack - Mental Models 103

01 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Long time friend of the show and all round great human George Mack joins me today as we revisit the world of decision making. Mental Models are tools ...

#177 - Jim Mullane - How To Get Better With Books

30 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Mullane is the man behind the fastest growing Instagram page focussed on self-development & books @GetBetterWithBooks. Developing a reading habit ...

#176 - Catch Up 105

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef join me again for another Catch Up episode. No agenda, no topics, just us talking about our lives & what we've been up to recently. Expe...

#175 - Greg McKeown - Essentialism Explained: How To Focus On What Matters In Life

25 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Greg McKeown is a public speaker, leadership & business strategist and New York Times Bestselling Author. Do you feel busy but not productive? Like yo...

#174 - Alex Kantrowitz - Why Are The Biggest Tech Companies So Dominant?

23 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Kantrowitz is a Senior Tech Reporter at Buzzfeed and an author. The biggest tech companies on the planet are incredibly dominant and today we dis...

#173 - What Is The Fitness Menopause?

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today I am joined by Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness. The Fitness Menopause is a concept we've been talking about for a while. It describes the tran...

#172 - Johann Hari - What Are The Real Causes Of Depression?

18 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Johann Hari is a writer & a journalist. Rates of depression are at an all time high and yet pharmaceutical drugs have never been more widely used. If ...

#171 - Stephen Hicks - Socialism & Postmodernism For Dummies

16 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Hicks is a Professor at Rockford University and an author. Socialism & Postmodernism are terms thrown around a lot but I don't really understa...

#170 - Massimo Piggliuci - 5 Exercises From Stoicism To Improve Your Life

14 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Massimo Piggliuci is a Professor of Philosophy at City College and an author. Despite being 2500 years old, Stoicism has recently seen a surge in popu...

#169 - Ollie Ollerton - Becoming Battle Ready

11 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ollie Ollerton is an ex-Special Forces Operative, Instructor from SAS Who Dares Wins and an author. Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. We h...

#168 - Zack Telander - Stereotypes In Fitness & On The Internet

09 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Zack Telander is a weightlifter, coach & YouTuber. I'm joined by Coach ZT himself today for a chilled out discussion where we hit all the big topics, ...

#167 - Bruce Duckworth - Designing The World's Biggest Brands

07 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Bruce Duckworth is a designer and the Co-Founder & Co-Chairman of Turner Duckworth Design Company. Amazon's smile logo, Coca Cola's rebrand, Samsung, ...

#166 - Fat Tony - How To Spend £1,000,000 On Drugs

04 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Fat Tony is a DJ & promoter. Tony's story is fascinating. From being one of the biggest DJs in London's house music scene to running some of the best ...

#165 - Mike Michalowicz - Fix The Biggest Problems In Your Business

02 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Michalowicz is an entrepreneur and an author. "An entrepreneur's biggest problem is they don't know what their biggest problem is" - hoooo boy if...

#164 - Dave Rubin - Going From Woke To Awake

30 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dave Rubin is a political commentator, YouTuber & author. Politics is possessive, and as a thinking human you need a roadmap to guide your route out o...

#163 - Richard Shotton - Psychology, Advertising & Human Behaviour

27 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Shotton is a behavioural scientist, Founder of Astroten and an author. One of my favourite guests returns today as we discuss mental models, p...

#162 - Dr Sam Spinelli - How To Design Your Perfect Warmup

23 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Sam Spinelli is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and Strength & Conditioning Expert. The first thing you do before any workout is warm up, but understa...

#161 - Rob Henderson - Evolution & The Modern Dating Market

20 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Henderson is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and a US Air Force Veteran. The modern dating market is hard to navigate, our genetic ...

#160 - Michael Blevins - A Conversation Not About Fitness

16 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Blevins is a coach, podcaster and part of the team who trained some of Hollywood's biggest stars for screen. Expect to learn why exercising is...

#159 - Michael Malice - David Icke, Conspiracies & Cuddle Club

13 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Malice is an author, political commentator & podcaster. In case you didn't know, me and Michael are now best friends after our first episode a...

#158 - Catch Up 104

09 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me for a highly requested Catch Up episode. No agenda, no specific topics, just us 3 discussing life. Expec...

#157 - Ben Greenfield - The Ultimate Daily Routine

06 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Greenfield is a Coach, Author, Speaker, ex-Bodybuilder and Ironman Triathlete. We are what we repeatedly do. So when you have every known biohacki...

#156 - Scott Barry Kaufman - The New Science Of Self Actualisation

02 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Barry Kaufman is a Psychologist at the Columbia University, a writer and podcaster. The world has quantifiable metrics of success, our objective...

#155 - Steven Fawcett - Understanding Fitness As A Competitor

30 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Steven Fawcett is a 3 Times CrossFit Games Athlete and Head Coach of JST Compete. How to become fit and how to use that fitness in a competitive envir...

#154 - Jason Calacanis - How Does Angel Investing Work?

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Calacanis is an angel investor and podcaster. I'm constantly hearing stories of how people are making their millions and billions angel investin...

#153 - Isolation Hacks 101

23 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me for a special remote-recorded episode. The world is in shutdown and lifestyles have changed dramatically...

#152 - Lydia Denworth - Understanding Friendship

19 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Lydia Denworth is a writer and Contributing Editor for Scientific American. It's cliche to say that we're more connected than ever but have never felt...

#151 - Morgan Housel - What Has Covid-19 Done To The Economy?

16 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Morgan Housel is a writer and investor. Markets are down 25% and the biggest single day market move in recent history was due to the Coronavirus Outbr...

#150 - Derek Sivers - Making Decisions, Achieving Excellence & Finding Meaning

12 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Derek Sivers is a writer, entrepreneur & musician. Derek's episodes on The Tim Ferriss Show are some of my all time favourites so I was super excited ...

#149 - Dr Eric Feigl-Ding - Just How Bad Is COVID-19?

09 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Eric Feigl-Ding is an Epidemiologist at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists. The Co...

#148 - Jason Stapleton - How To Survive The 21st Century

05 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Stapleton is a former Force Recon Marine, investor and coach. The impending AI automation takeover is nearly here. If we're not careful we'll al...

#147 - Danny T - DJ Life, Building A Personal Brand & Mental Health

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Danny T is a DJ and producer. Expect to learn... How do you go from being a local DJ to touring Europe and selling out arenas? What are the principles...

#146 - Dr Heather Berlin - Considering Consciousness

27 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Heather Berlin is a cognitive neuroscientist and Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine. All humans have a subjective experience of r...

#145 - Life Hacks 111

24 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef join me as our most popular series returns! Here we go with another Life Hacks episode as we detail our favourite apps, websites, resour...

#144 - Martin Schmalz - Artificial Intelligence, Big Data & China

20 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Martin Schmalz is a professor of Finance at Oxford University and an author. We're receiving constant warnings about the advent of Artificial Intellig...

#143 - John Assaraf - Understand Your Emotions & Take Control Of Your Life

17 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

John Assaraf is an author, entrepreneur and mindset expert. Our brains are the most complex organisms in the known universe, but they don't come with ...

#142 - Morgan Housel - How To Create & Manage Your Personal Wealth

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Morgan Housel is a writer and investor. Understanding the basics of money management is something none of us are taught but all of us need. Today we g...

#141 - Ryan Fischer - The Life Story

10 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Fischer is a multi-sport athlete, coach & gym owner. Ryan is one of the most interesting characters in fitness. From being among the top BMXers o...

#140 - Michael Malice - Dating, Cheetos, Liquor, Biden, Bernie & Fitness

06 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Malice is an author, political commentator & podcaster. What happens if Biden or Bernie end up going head to head with Trump in 2020? Who crea...

#139 - Chelsea Ferguson - £10,000,000 From Selling Nudes

03 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Chelsea Ferguson is the founder of AdmireMe.vip. We're constantly being told that you can be anything you want and if you discover your passion in lif...

#138 - James Altucher - Treat Your Life As An Experiment

30 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

James Altucher is a chess master, writer, entrepreneur, investor, podcaster and comedian. Overcoming our life's natural inertia is hard. We overplan, ...

#137 - James Altucher - How To Improve Every Day & Harness The Power Of Ideas

27 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

James Altucher is a chess master, writer, entrepreneur, investor, podcaster and comedian. Everyone talks about compound improvements being the key to ...

#136 - Tucker Max - Personal Growth, Dating & Psychedelics

23 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tucker Max is an author, speaker and the Co-Founder of Scribe. How do you go from being a professional asshole to a dad? From beer bongs to boardrooms...

#135 - Kamal Ravikant - How Loving Yourself Can Save Your Life

20 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kamal Ravikant is an investor and writer. Do you love yourself? Do you even like yourself? The body and mind you inhabit is the only one you're going ...

#134 - Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - How Much Does Google Know About Me?

16 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a former Data Scientist at Google and a writer. There are things which you write into Google which you have never told ano...

#133 - Roderic Yapp - Lessons From Afghanistan & Capturing Somali Pirates

13 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Roderic Yapp is a business coach and former Royal Marines Officer. What was it really like to be on the front lines in Afghanistan? How do you recaptu...

#132 - Charlotte Fox Weber - Do I Need Therapy?

09 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Charlotte Fox Weber is the Head of Psychotherapy at The School Of Life. Therapy is a term that comes with a lot of baggage. It's seen as a last ditch ...

#131 - What I Would Tell My 18 Year Old Self

06 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef join me for the first episode of the new year as we ask each other what would we tell ourselves 10 years ago. If you were given a 30 sec...

#130 - Keith Cooper - The Contact Paradox: Where Are All The Aliens?

30 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Keith Cooper is the Editor of Astronomy Now and an author. Why is searching for aliens so hard? How would they contact us? How would we decode a messa...

#129 - Christmas Special - Hacks, Fails & Lessons From 2019

23 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef from Propane Fitness join me for a special Christmas edition end of year recap. In 2019 what did we love, what did we hate, what did we ...

#128 - Benjamin Dennehy - The UK's Most Hated Sales Trainer

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Benjamin Dennehy is a sales trainer. Being able to sell is a skill many people want. The ability to control your income by selling things for other pe...

#127 - Koen Smets - The Behavioural Economics Of How We Spend Our Time

16 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Koen Smets is a behavioural economist and professor. We've been told "time is money" for all our lives, but how does time RELATE to money? We can't sa...

#126 - Sean Carroll - The Problem With Quantum Mechanics

12 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist, podcaster and author. Quantum physics is complicated. The quantum world does not operate like the one we see ...

#125 - How To Become An Online Coach

09 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny and Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me today as we talk about how to become an online coach. The opportunity to work from anywhere in the wor...

#124 - James Lindsay - Social Justice Explained: The Foundations Of Wokeness

05 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

James Lindsay is an author & researcher. I've been exposed the words Social Justice Warrior, Wokeness and Post Modernism a lot over the last year, but...

#123 - Sobriety 101 - Why Sobriety?

02 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness join me for a new series. Over the last 3 years I've spent more than 24 months sober. Choosing to not drink when you...

#122 - Buster Benson - How To Argue With Someone

25 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Buster Benson is an entrepreneur & writer. How do we have a productive disagreement with another person? The art of conversing with someone to create ...

#121 - Brian Mackenzie - How To Breathe Properly

18 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Brian is the Creative Director at Power Speed Endurance. We all breathe, but are we doing it right? The breath controls much more than we might realis...

#120 - Professor Paul Bloom - What Do BDSM & Meditation Have In Common?

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Bloom is an author and a Professor of Psychology at Yale. Why is suffering a cause of pleasure for some people? What do BDSM, being robbed, extre...

#119 - Kelly Starrett - Getting Better At The Game Of Life

11 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Kelly Starrett is a CrossFit trainer, physical therapist, author and speaker. Expect to learn what Kelly thinks about the Game Changers documentary, h...

#118 - Dr Larry Sanger - Why Is Wikipedia Broken?

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Larry Sanger is the ex-founder of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is almost a public utility now, like water or energy. It's one of the most visited sites on ...

#117 - Aubrey Marcus - What Makes A Good Life?

04 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Aubrey Marcus is a podcaster, author and CEO. I wanted to find out how Aubrey defines living a good life, and how he structures his world to ensure th...

#116 - Sanjay Rawal - 3100 Miles: The Longest Race On Earth

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sanjay Rawal is an award-winning filmmaker. Today we learn about the longest race on earth which takes place in the middle of New York around a squa...

#115 - Life Hacks 110

28 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef join me again for another Life Hacks episode as we detail our favourite apps, websites, resources and tools for a productive and efficie...

#114 - Sonny Webster - Bad Days, Good Days & Staying Resilient

24 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sonny Webster is a weightlifter and online coach. Some days you're feeling it, some days not so much. All of us have good and bad periods to contend w...